Human Error, Part II
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 That tiny thing at their feet? Yeah, that's right, that's their leader... | ||||||
| "Human Error, Part II" | ||||||
| Airdate | April 25, 2009 | |||||
| Written by | Tom Pugsley | |||||
| Directed by | Kalvin Lee Yosuke Hatta | |||||
| Animation studio | Mook | |||||
With the Autobots trapped in Soundwave's virtual world, Sari seeks help to rescue them.
Synopsis
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons | Humans | Substitute Autobots |
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Quotes
Driver: Take it easy, lead foot!
Bulkhead: What, it's not lead any more!
[Bumblebee's car hits Bulkhead's car]
Bumblebee: Virtual Fanzone is gonna be ticked!.
Optimus: I have to hand it to the humans Driving is much more difficult than it looks.
Ratchet: [Driving backwards] This ain't so hard.
Prowl: It's merely a matter of becoming one with the machiAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! [Begins popping a wheelie]
- —The Autobots take their turn at driving...and fail miserably.
"Hey, weren't there three of you? Where's the other one."
"Me Grimlock not talking to him. Him traitor. Dinobots not pets."
- —Sari Sumdac and Grimlock on the status of the Dinobots.
Sari: Alright. Substitute Autobots, transform and roll out!
Wreck-Gar: Transform. What a good idea!
[Transforms and drives off]
Scrapper: [Riding Snarl] Hi ho Snarl!
[Snarl slips on some ice, knocking Scrapper off, who transforms and follows]
Scrapper: Hey Snarl, wait for daddy!
Sari: Hey, wait for me! I'm your leader!
- —The Substitute Autobots aren't getting off to a good start.
Powel: I'm ruined! I'll have to refund every last penny!
Sumdac:And you can start by refunding mine!
- —Oh, come on, Isaac, you loved it when it was dancing...
Notes
Animation or technical errors
- Human Ratchet has his scar on the wrong side in one scene.
Continuity errors
Transformers references
- Multiple Electrostatic Soundwaves populate Soundwave's virtual world.
- Virtual human Bulkhead uses Prowl's first toy's primary weapon.
- Scrapper names the triceratops Dinobot "Snarl" as a second choice after he took offense to "Slag", referencing the real-life name change for Snarl.
- Soundwave also mass-hypnotized humans in the Generation 1 cartoon episode Auto-Bop.
Real-world references
- Both Wreck-Gar and his voice-actor, "Weird Al" Yankovic, play the accordion.
- Optimus refers to Laserbeak as an "axe" (a common nickname for guitars) before forcibly transforming him into his alt. mode.
- Scrapper's cry of "Hi ho Snarl!" is a reference to the Lone Ranger's cry of "Hi ho Silver!"
- Some of the sound effects used when Optimus attacks Soundwave with Laserbeak date back to Hanna-Barbara's Quickdraw McGraw, whose title character's alter-ego El Kabong used a guitar as a melee weapon.
- When Soundwave breaks apart and his mind control power dissipates, the sound effect is of a dial-up modem.
Trivia
- Several questions were left unanswered in this two-parter, including how Soundwave was rebuilt after the destruction of his body in "Sound and Fury", and where Laserbeak and Ratbat come from.
- This episode marks the return of Captain Fanzone's car and it's still in that bad condition but hell at least it's not ON FIRE!
